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form, and Scientific Proceedings, in octavo. In 1909 it was 

 decided to adopt an intermediate size of page as more 

 convenient, and since that date the Society has issued 

 but one scientific publication entitled the Scientific 

 Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society. This is sent in 

 exchange to all the important scientific societies in the 

 world ; the number on the exchange list at present is 

 474, so that wide publicity is ensured for every paper 

 printed in the Proceedings. Papers of a purely economic 

 character are still published in octavo form in the Economic 

 Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, which is also 

 widely distributed in exchange for the publications of 

 other societies. These recent scientific publications 

 are easily accessible to those who desire to consult 

 them, so that it will be unnecessary to summarise 

 their contents here. 



Votes in Aid of Research 



Votes in aid of scientific research are of compara- 

 tively recent origin, though it had been the practice 

 for a long time to afford aid in experimental investi- 

 gations, especially by providing apparatus for use in 

 the Society's own laboratories. 



Since 1890 the following grants in aid of research 

 have been made by the Science Committee with the 

 sanction of the Council : — Dr. John Joly, on the 

 constant of gravitation, £20 ; Mr. H. H. Dixon, the 

 locomotion of anthropoda, £10 ; Mr. Calderwood, 

 investigation of fishes obtained in the survey of 1894, 

 £50 ; Professor Sollas, the bog slide in Kerry, ^30 ; 

 and apparatus for anthropological investigations in 

 Borneo, £50 ; Professor Preston, research in the 

 magnetic field, £50 ; Professor C. J. Joly, solar 

 eclipse expedition, £ijo ; Dr. Adeney, measurement 

 of spark spectra, £20 ; and on the streaming pheno- 



